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Novelist Gayle Forman on American Music Club’s ‘Firefly’

The author of ‘If I Stay’ and ‘I Was Here’ on discovering the band and the song on a mix her husband made for her

June 9, 2015 10:20 a.m. ET

Novelist Gayle Forman, 44, is the author of eight books, including “If I Stay” and, most recently, “I Was Here” (Viking). She spoke with Marc Myers.

I fell in love with my husband, Nick, in 1992, when he was a guitarist in a punk band in Eugene, Ore. Just before I left to return to Los Angeles in 1993, he made me a mix that included American Music Club’s “Firefly.” The band and the song were new to me.